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Intel Dual Xeon PICMG 1.3 NLT System Host Board
Trenton Technology’s NLT PICMG 1.3 system host board
(SHB) or single board computer (SBC) turns the promise of PCI Express™
into a reality. The high-speed SHB to backplane PCI Express links
employed on the NLT strip away parallel bus bandwidth limitations
while unleashing the processing power of the next generation Intel®
Xeon™ processors.
The NLT features
the Intel® E7520 chipset, an 800MHz system bus, dual channel DDR2-400 memory interfaces, dual
Gigabit Ethernet ports, dual Serial ATA/150 ports, dual USB 2.0 ports with two additional USB
2.0 interfaces and an advanced Ultra XGA video port. PCI Express, PCI and PCI-X option card
support makes the NLT an ideal choice for current as well as future industrial computing
applications.
Processor
Dual Intel® Xeon™ processors at speeds of 2.8GHz to 3.6GHz*
Processor Package: FC-mPGA4 package (604-pin)
*Higher speeds as available
Chipset
The NLT uses the Intel® E7520 chipset featuring an 800MHz system bus,
Symmetric Multiprocessing Protocol for two processors operating on the 800Mz system bus,
Hyper-Threading Technology and a dual channel DDR2-400 memory interface. Three x8 PCI Express
interfaces are supported by the NLT’s chipset. See the PCI Express Interfaces section for
details on how the NLT implements PCI Express.
The Intel® E6300ESB I/O Controller Hub supports the NLT’s dual Serial ATA/150
ports, four USB 2.0 interfaces, dual Ultra ATA/100 interfaces and the video and Ethernet
controllers. The I/O Controller Hub’s LPC interface is routed to the board’s controlled
impedance connector and supports an optional I/O expansion board (Trenton’s IOB30) for legacy
I/O and serial port communications. Communications between the Intel® E7520 Memory Controller
Hub and the I/O Controller Hub occurs over a 266MB/s Hub Interface.
PCI Express Interfaces
Trenton Technology's NLT picmg 1.3 system host board
provides two x8 PCI Express links, one x4 PCI Express link and five
PCI Express reference clocks routed to edge connectors A and B. These
PCI Express links are used on SHB Express™ backplanes to support PCI
Express option cards and bridge chips that provide PCI/PCI-X option
card support. During system initialization the NLT automatically negotiates
with the devices connected to the PCI Express links in order to set
up communication between these devices. The net result is that the
NLT system host board supports communication to x1, x4, x8, x16 PCI
Express boards and PCI Express switch chips as well as PCI/PCI-X cards
via PCI Express-to-PCI/PCI-X bridge technology on the backplane.
Key features of the NLT System Host Board include:
- Dual Intel® Xeon™ processors with the Intel® E7520 chipset
- Provides PCI Express™ interfaces to the backplane
- Compatible with the SHB Express™ (PICMG® 1.3) specification
- Supports 32-bit and 64-bit applications via Intel® Extended Memory 64 Technology
- Supports dual channel DDR2-400 memory, 8GB maximum
- Dual Gigabit Ethernet
- Dual Serial ATA/150 and dual USB 2.0 ports with two additional USB 2.0 interfaces
- Supports PCI Express, PCI-X and PCI option cards
Ordering Information
For further details of this dual Intel Xeon PCI Express
Single Board Computer and other PICMG 1.3 Trenton Technology products,
please see the Trenton Technology web pages on this site or contact
us via our Contacts page.
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